Footnote

e As to what it takes to compensate for blood lost, every minute about 180 million red blood cells die. The bones of the body must replace these with healthy young cells, or else the person faces anemic death. It requires six to eight weeks for the bone marrow to restore the red blood cells after a pint of blood has been removed, as in the case of a blood donor.​—See Awake! as of February 22, 1963, page 20, under the title “You Are Wonderfully Made.”